UK TV Reach: Star TV dominates Top 3
Star TV channels Star Plus, Star Gold and Life OK dominated the latest UK TV reach data, according to official data from BARB for week ending Sunday 8th January 2017.
Star Plus remained the UK’s most watched Asian channel overall with a reach of 903,000 viewers (last week 837,000 viewers), followed by Star Gold with 657,000 viewers (last week 676,000 viewers) and Life OK at No.3 with 542,000 viewers (last week 479,000 viewers). This is the first time that three Star TV channels have taken the Top 3 in terms of UK weekly reach data.
The next tier consisted of &TV and Colors in fourth place with 521,000 viewers, Zing with 515,000 viewers, Rishtey Cineplex with 480,000 viewers, Sony SAB TV with 464,000 viewers and Rishtey with 432,000 viewers.
The rest of the entertainment channels look as the following B4U Music with 368,000 viewers, Prime TV with 268,000 viewers, Geo TV with 196,000 viewers, Star Utsav with 169,000 viewers, PTV Global with 166,000 viewers, PTC Punjabi with 156,000 viewers, Brit Asia TV with 150,000 viewers, Sikh Channel 145,000 viewers, Venus TV with 125,000 viewers, ATN Bangla with 124,000 viewers and Akaal Channel with 102,000 viewers.
ARY News remained the preferred South Asian news channel in the UK with 422,000 viewers (last week 563,000 viewers), followed by Geo News with 287,000 viewers, NDTV 24×7 with 238,000 viewers and SAMAA TV with 231,000 viewers. Geo Tez was next with 196,000 viewers, followed by Dunya TV was next with 195,000 viewers, Aaj Tak with 135,000 viewers, ABP News with 119,000 viewers, Times Now with 83,000 viewers and News18 with 47,000 viewers.
